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Rome wasn’t built in a day. And neither are strong criminal cases ready for prosecution.

That is why officers with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department have spent the last several months investigating a number of people believed to be active in the drug trade and other illegal activities within the county.

In what has become a legal version of one upsmanship prosecutors are hoping to undo the ruling that wiped the slate clean for Kenneth S. Bartley.

Last week, Senior Assistant District Attorney General Mike Ripley filed a notice of appeal on the last legal move that occurred in the case. The hope is to have Judge Jon K. Blackwood’s verdict that set aside Bartley’s 2007 guilty plea reversed. This would leave the now 19-year-old man to serve out his 45-year prison sentence. Currently he has reverted back to pre trial status.

Calling the case a “quintessential murder mystery” attorney Greg Isaacs began his argument in hopes of Phillip Pack receiving a new trial on Monday.

Last year Pack was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Jayne Love.

During his argument Isaacs said his client had been convicted at a trial where there wasn’t any forensic evidence presented. Noting that only skeletal remains were all that was left of the body later identified as Love, he said there was not a way to conclude her exact manner of death.

Calling the case a “quintessential murder mystery” attorney Greg Isaacs began his argument in hopes of Phillip Pack receiving a new trial on Monday.

Last year Pack was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Jayne Love.

During his argument Isaacs said his client had been convicted at a trial where there wasn’t any forensic evidence presented. Noting that only skeletal remains were all that was left of the body later identified as Love, he said there was not a way to conclude her exact manner of death.

Calling the case a “quintessential murder mystery” attorney Greg Isaacs began his argument in hopes of Phillip Pack receiving a new trial on Monday.

Last year Pack was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Jayne Love.

During his argument Isaacs said his client had been convicted at a trial where there wasn’t any forensic evidence presented. Noting that only skeletal remains were all that was left of the body later identified as Love, he said there was not a way to conclude her exact manner of death.